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From: billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AmiExpo...quick review...
Keywords: 24 bits, DCTV, JMAN
Message-ID: <1990Oct15.043855.2900@agora.uucp>
Date: 15 Oct 90 04:38:55 GMT
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In article <27136C77.859@ics.uci.edu> rang@ics.uci.edu (Roger Penaranda Jr. Ang) writes:
:But what I'm curious about is what people were using to run there
:anims.  At the expo, there was a Roger Rabbit cartoon ( the beginning
:of the movie ) and Predator ( I think this was a sampled anim ) being
:shown on Amiga screens with no VCR in sight.  The Roger Rabbit cartoon
:looked a little grainy close up but was okay.  In the lower right hand
:corner there was "12 fps", meaning it was going at 12 frames a second.
:Both had good sound.  Predator looked like it was the full movie ( it
:was going for a long time ) and I could see the Amiga accessing the
:hard drive all through it.  SO WHAT WERE THEY USING THAT LET THEM PLAY
:ANIMS FROM DISK WITH SOUND!!!!!

	Both ICD and GVP had demos going with real time playback of anims
and sound from hard disk. They were both completely bypassing the Amiga's
filesystem, however. Note that it's really not that tough to display
graphics in real time from a fast SCSI HD (I believe they were both using
Wren VI drives) as long as you don't have to worry about a file system
and can just dump raw data from the drive into the Amiga. (BTW, the
Preditor animation was about 15 minutes! That was a big, fast drive!) :-)

:                                        Roger P. Ang (rang@ICS.UCI.EDU)
:Irvine? Where's Irvine?                 Grad student at the
:In the heart of the Orange Curtain.     Dept. of Information & Computer Sci.
:Oh no! The poor fool.                   Univ. of California, Irvine.


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